Woody Starkey points out a few spots his crew bombed on this cloth survival map he carried with him during WWII.

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Just under nine jagged inches long, it is heavy in the hand and almost painful to the touch, its points and nearly razor-sharp ridges the sort that would rip through a man's clothing and flesh like it was nothing.

"That's flak," a smiling Mirwood A. Starkey said of the piece of shrapnel, which he figures blew into his B-17 in the skies high over Germany on the blast of a German 88 millimeter cannon shell. ...